So after the posting about the short zombie doc., my buddy Tony Trov told me he has been developing a comic book called black Cherry Bombshells.
This comic features Ultra-violent girl gangs fight for supremacy of a doomed future where all men have been mutated into flesh eating zombies. In Las Vegas the Black Cherry Bombshells, Led by the outcast Regina, are gaining a reputation as the baddest bootleggers in town. That doesn't sit well with a powerful, local crime boss; the woman they call 'The King
Check out this video and the Myspace.
http://www.myspace.com/blackcherrybombshells
Enjoy!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Helium: A World Without the Chipmunks / Part.1
Helium: A World Without the Chipmunks / Part.1
I recently watched the film Alvin and the Chipmunks, (yeah that’s right Jason Lee) and there is a scene in which Alvin picks up a balloon full of Helium. Alvin takes a hit and his voice goes from his usual delightfully high pitched voice to a booming deep voice, made me chuckle pretty hard. Where am I going with this you say, well the very next day I was on set with a large canister of Helium and we got into a discussion about the rising cost of Helium. It was stated that this increase in price is due to the fact that we are running out of Helium, and that within our lifetime we would run out of precious Helium; this called for an investigation.
After many hours of online research and government findings, and probably one too many cups of espresso, I present to you the Helium report.
Helium (He) is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic gas and is one of seven noble gases; the others being neon, argon, krypton, xenon, radon and ununoctium. Helium is the second element on the Periodic table of elements, due to its atomic number. The atomic number, also known as the proton number, has to do with the number of protons found in the nucleus of an Atom. (Sorry if this is getting to scientific.) Helium also has the lowest boiling and melting point amoung all of the elements, and it is most commonly found as a gas except in extreme conditions. Helium is the second most abundant element in the known Universe after hydrogen and constitutes twenty three percent of the elemental mass of the universe.
Helium was first detected by French astronomer Pierre Jassen, on August 18th 1868, during a solar eclipse. It was spotted as a bright yellow line in the chromospheres of the sun, later that year scientist Norman Lockyer theorized that there is an element that is found on the sun that is not found here one earth; thus naming the element Helios the Greek word for the Sun. (For those of you who do not know, all colors coincide with a numerical value, which is measured in nanometers. Sorry I sometimes study wavelengths to know which sort of color correction gel I need to put over a light fixture, to make it match. Yes there is a certain science to filmmaking.) Later in 1903, a Kansas state geologist by the name of Erasmus Haworth, stumbled upon a gas while conducting a routine oil drilling operation. Haworth found that the gas was non-flamable, after further investigation found that helium was present in vast quanties under the American Great Plains. Haworth’s discovery now made the United States the world’s leading supplier of Helium.
Helium has many remarkable properties, it is smaller than any other element and it is the second lightest gas known to man; it is also known for its very stable and symmetrical structure. Due to these properties Helium has many uses. It is an ideal lifting gas, as everyone knows what kind of party would be complete without some balloons. Helium unlike Hydrogen, is non-flammable, so it has many uses in the field of aerial transport. Helium is also has a high thermal conductivity rating, therefore it is able to be used in the heat treatment of optical fibers, with little or no imperfections. On the other end of the spectrum, due to Helium’s low liquefaction temperature it makes it ideal for, rocket propulsion systems, cryogenics and the cooling of superconductors; namely MRI machines. Due to its sable nature, humans have found many uses for Helium in the scientific field, and not to mention birthday parties. So what’s the problem?
Helium in a non-renewable resource,
“Nearly all helium on Earth is a result of radioactive decay. The decay product is primarily found in minerals of uranium and thorium, including cleveites, pitchblende, carnotite and monazite, because they emit alpha particles, which consist of helium nuclei (He2+) to which electrons readily combine. In this way an estimated 3.4 litres of helium per year are generated per cubic kilometer of the Earth's crust. In the Earth's crust, the concentration of helium is 8 parts per billion. In seawater, the concentration is only 4 parts per trillion. There are also small amounts in mineral springs, volcanic gas, and meteoric iron. The greatest concentrations on the planet are in natural gas, from which most commercial helium is derived.”
According to Lee Sobotka, the world’s helium supply may be in danger. Check out the link below for the full article.
Helium supplies endangered, threatening science and technology
Why Your Voices Gets Higher With Helium Gas.
When a series compression waves (your voice) leave the helium in your lungs and hit the denser air, the wave train is suddenly slowed down. The wave in front is slowed first while the wave behind it is still moving fast. Then the second wave is slowed while the third is still moving fast, and so on. It's like fast moving traffic on an open freeway suddenly coming to a slow point in the road, all the cars bunch up close to each other.
Your ear interprets closely bunched sound waves as a higher pitch than widely spaced waves. So when your voice originates in helium and then travels through the air to someone's ear, it sounds higher. If both you and the listener were in a room filled with helium, your voice would get to their ears faster than normal, but there would be no pitch change.
I recently watched the film Alvin and the Chipmunks, (yeah that’s right Jason Lee) and there is a scene in which Alvin picks up a balloon full of Helium. Alvin takes a hit and his voice goes from his usual delightfully high pitched voice to a booming deep voice, made me chuckle pretty hard. Where am I going with this you say, well the very next day I was on set with a large canister of Helium and we got into a discussion about the rising cost of Helium. It was stated that this increase in price is due to the fact that we are running out of Helium, and that within our lifetime we would run out of precious Helium; this called for an investigation.
After many hours of online research and government findings, and probably one too many cups of espresso, I present to you the Helium report.
Helium (He) is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic gas and is one of seven noble gases; the others being neon, argon, krypton, xenon, radon and ununoctium. Helium is the second element on the Periodic table of elements, due to its atomic number. The atomic number, also known as the proton number, has to do with the number of protons found in the nucleus of an Atom. (Sorry if this is getting to scientific.) Helium also has the lowest boiling and melting point amoung all of the elements, and it is most commonly found as a gas except in extreme conditions. Helium is the second most abundant element in the known Universe after hydrogen and constitutes twenty three percent of the elemental mass of the universe.
Helium was first detected by French astronomer Pierre Jassen, on August 18th 1868, during a solar eclipse. It was spotted as a bright yellow line in the chromospheres of the sun, later that year scientist Norman Lockyer theorized that there is an element that is found on the sun that is not found here one earth; thus naming the element Helios the Greek word for the Sun. (For those of you who do not know, all colors coincide with a numerical value, which is measured in nanometers. Sorry I sometimes study wavelengths to know which sort of color correction gel I need to put over a light fixture, to make it match. Yes there is a certain science to filmmaking.) Later in 1903, a Kansas state geologist by the name of Erasmus Haworth, stumbled upon a gas while conducting a routine oil drilling operation. Haworth found that the gas was non-flamable, after further investigation found that helium was present in vast quanties under the American Great Plains. Haworth’s discovery now made the United States the world’s leading supplier of Helium.
Helium has many remarkable properties, it is smaller than any other element and it is the second lightest gas known to man; it is also known for its very stable and symmetrical structure. Due to these properties Helium has many uses. It is an ideal lifting gas, as everyone knows what kind of party would be complete without some balloons. Helium unlike Hydrogen, is non-flammable, so it has many uses in the field of aerial transport. Helium is also has a high thermal conductivity rating, therefore it is able to be used in the heat treatment of optical fibers, with little or no imperfections. On the other end of the spectrum, due to Helium’s low liquefaction temperature it makes it ideal for, rocket propulsion systems, cryogenics and the cooling of superconductors; namely MRI machines. Due to its sable nature, humans have found many uses for Helium in the scientific field, and not to mention birthday parties. So what’s the problem?
Helium in a non-renewable resource,
“Nearly all helium on Earth is a result of radioactive decay. The decay product is primarily found in minerals of uranium and thorium, including cleveites, pitchblende, carnotite and monazite, because they emit alpha particles, which consist of helium nuclei (He2+) to which electrons readily combine. In this way an estimated 3.4 litres of helium per year are generated per cubic kilometer of the Earth's crust. In the Earth's crust, the concentration of helium is 8 parts per billion. In seawater, the concentration is only 4 parts per trillion. There are also small amounts in mineral springs, volcanic gas, and meteoric iron. The greatest concentrations on the planet are in natural gas, from which most commercial helium is derived.”
According to Lee Sobotka, the world’s helium supply may be in danger. Check out the link below for the full article.
Helium supplies endangered, threatening science and technology
Why Your Voices Gets Higher With Helium Gas.
When a series compression waves (your voice) leave the helium in your lungs and hit the denser air, the wave train is suddenly slowed down. The wave in front is slowed first while the wave behind it is still moving fast. Then the second wave is slowed while the third is still moving fast, and so on. It's like fast moving traffic on an open freeway suddenly coming to a slow point in the road, all the cars bunch up close to each other.
Your ear interprets closely bunched sound waves as a higher pitch than widely spaced waves. So when your voice originates in helium and then travels through the air to someone's ear, it sounds higher. If both you and the listener were in a room filled with helium, your voice would get to their ears faster than normal, but there would be no pitch change.
Zombies on The Vegas Strip
Check out this video:
(For those of us who paid money to see Diary of the Dead, I find myself much more satisfied watching this video)
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(For those of us who paid money to see Diary of the Dead, I find myself much more satisfied watching this video)
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Foreign Film Meets Rock and Metal
I was looking in this magazine the other day maybe Blender or Spin, and out of the corner of my eye I saw this:
I thought it was amazing, just simple enough to be considered interested and only a handful of people would know what the shirt meant. Here are the other designs that they have put out my personal favorite is the Fassbinder but I also really dig the Von Trier one. Check out www.mondotees.com.
P.S. No one buy the Warriors vintage T-shirt that is mine. (I know it's sweet)
I thought it was amazing, just simple enough to be considered interested and only a handful of people would know what the shirt meant. Here are the other designs that they have put out my personal favorite is the Fassbinder but I also really dig the Von Trier one. Check out www.mondotees.com.
P.S. No one buy the Warriors vintage T-shirt that is mine. (I know it's sweet)
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
So if you know me you know i like the Show ATHF, so I have been real dissapointed with the recent episodes. However, the new episode Reedickyoulus was amazing I am posting a link below to watch the second half of the episode on line.
5 words: Gay Ape Zombie Party Bus
Synopsis: Shake pops Meatwad's kitten in the microwave causing Meatwad to retaliate by doing the same thing to Shake's kitten. The pets are buried in the yard, which is exactly where Carl has been taking bathroom trips of a nuclear variety. A glowing crotch and radioactive feces just happen to be two of the side effects of his new sex machine, "Reedickyoulus." Once the radiation seeps into the ground, it reanimates all of the Aqua Teen's dead pets into a zombie army led by a gay ape who wants to have sex with Shake. As you can guess, the prospect of free sex with anyone, zombie or not, is too much for Shake to turn down. As a result, Frylock and Meatwad have to cut off Shake's decomposing head and send him away on the zombie party bus into the sunset.
http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c39217f359ab0117f47a358d0008
watch it and be amazed!
5 words: Gay Ape Zombie Party Bus
Synopsis: Shake pops Meatwad's kitten in the microwave causing Meatwad to retaliate by doing the same thing to Shake's kitten. The pets are buried in the yard, which is exactly where Carl has been taking bathroom trips of a nuclear variety. A glowing crotch and radioactive feces just happen to be two of the side effects of his new sex machine, "Reedickyoulus." Once the radiation seeps into the ground, it reanimates all of the Aqua Teen's dead pets into a zombie army led by a gay ape who wants to have sex with Shake. As you can guess, the prospect of free sex with anyone, zombie or not, is too much for Shake to turn down. As a result, Frylock and Meatwad have to cut off Shake's decomposing head and send him away on the zombie party bus into the sunset.
http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c39217f359ab0117f47a358d0008
watch it and be amazed!
Friday, February 1, 2008
What should I do with my Old Car?
Alright so it seems everyone has a different idea as to what i should do with my old car.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with my car it is a beautiful 1989 Plymouth Reliant K. This beast has kept me on the road for three years with very few problems, survived two accidents and not a thing had to be repaired. Not bad for a free car huh.
So a couple of people want me to take it to a demolishion derby, others want me to do fun things with the car. I will leave it up to you to help me figure out what to do with my old ride.
MJ wants me to turn it into a Redneck Roller Coaster. Video Below:
So comment, send me messages, call my phone, email me. Operators will be standing by. I will post the best ideas on this blog.
And maybe you will be the winner.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with my car it is a beautiful 1989 Plymouth Reliant K. This beast has kept me on the road for three years with very few problems, survived two accidents and not a thing had to be repaired. Not bad for a free car huh.
So a couple of people want me to take it to a demolishion derby, others want me to do fun things with the car. I will leave it up to you to help me figure out what to do with my old ride.
MJ wants me to turn it into a Redneck Roller Coaster. Video Below:
So comment, send me messages, call my phone, email me. Operators will be standing by. I will post the best ideas on this blog.
And maybe you will be the winner.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Space Getting Closer to Home
So I was doing my random browsing of nasa.org, this morning; like i do every couple fo months or so. So this is a little bit of what I found out about the current exploration of space.
A Closer Look at the Previously Unseen Side 01.28.08
Two weeks ago, on January 14, 2008, MESSENGER became the first spacecraft to see the side of Mercury shown in this image. The first image transmitted back to Earth following the flyby of Mercury, and then released to the web within hours, shows the historic first look at the previously unseen side. This image, taken by the Wide Angle Camera (WAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), shows a closer view of much of that territory.
Just above and to the left of center of this image is a small crater with a pronounced set of bright rays extending across Mercury's surface away from the crater. Bright rays are commonly made in a crater-forming explosion when an asteroid strikes the surface of an airless body like the Moon or Mercury. But rays fade with time as tiny meteoroids and particles from the solar wind strike the surface and darken the rays. The prominence of these rays implies that the small crater at the center of the ray pattern formed comparatively recently.
This image is one in a planned set of 99. Nine different views of Mercury were snapped in this set to create a mosaic pattern with images in 3 rows and 3 columns. The WAC is equipped with 11 narrow-band color filters, and each of the 9 different views was acquired through all 11 filters. This image was taken in filter 7, which is sensitive to light near the red end of the visible spectrum (750 nm), and shows features as small as about 6 kilometers (4 miles) in size. The MESSENGER team is studying this previously unseen side of Mercury in detail to map and identify new geologic features and to construct the planet���������s geological history. Mission Elapsed Time (MET) of image: 108827618
That was pretty neat, the network news is refering to this photo as the "spider".
Next...I have been following this Cassaini-Huygens Project since before the launch in 1997.
New Update
The Cassini spacecraft successfully flew by Titan on Jan. 5. Its visual and infrared mapping spectrometer mapped the Huygens probe's landing site, now in direct sunlight. The flyby featured two separate stellar occultations to study the structure of Titan's atmosphere. The spectrometer watched the star Alpha Bootes, and the ultraviolet imaging spectrograph pointed toward Alpha Lyra.
A rainbow in Saturns rings. Reflection of the Cassini Probe.
Next... New Horizons
NASA's Pluto Mission Launched Toward New Horizons
The first mission to distant planet Pluto is under way after the successful launch today of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
"Today, NASA began an unprecedented journey of exploration to the ninth planet in the solar system," says Dr. Colleen Hartman, Deputy Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. "Right now, what we know about Pluto could be written on the back of a postage stamp. After this mission, we'll be able to fill textbooks with new information."
The 1,054-pound, piano-sized spacecraft is the fastest ever launched, speeding away from Earth at approximately 36,000 miles per hour, on a trajectory that will take it more than 3 billion miles toward its primary science target. New Horizons will zip past Jupiter for a gravity assist and science studies in February 2007, and conduct the first close-up, in-depth study of Pluto and its moons in summer 2015. As part of a potential extended mission, the spacecraft would then examine one or more additional objects in the Kuiper Belt, the region of ancient, icy, rocky bodies (including Pluto) far beyond Neptune's orbit.
So far...
The voyage of NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft through the Jupiter system earlier this year provided a bird's-eye view of a dynamic planet that has changed since the last close-up looks by NASA spacecraft.
And finally... Man found on Mars (Not Really)
Hope you enjoyed this installment, please feel free to check out www.nasa.gov for more information reguarding your countries space travel agenda.
A Closer Look at the Previously Unseen Side 01.28.08
Two weeks ago, on January 14, 2008, MESSENGER became the first spacecraft to see the side of Mercury shown in this image. The first image transmitted back to Earth following the flyby of Mercury, and then released to the web within hours, shows the historic first look at the previously unseen side. This image, taken by the Wide Angle Camera (WAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), shows a closer view of much of that territory.
Just above and to the left of center of this image is a small crater with a pronounced set of bright rays extending across Mercury's surface away from the crater. Bright rays are commonly made in a crater-forming explosion when an asteroid strikes the surface of an airless body like the Moon or Mercury. But rays fade with time as tiny meteoroids and particles from the solar wind strike the surface and darken the rays. The prominence of these rays implies that the small crater at the center of the ray pattern formed comparatively recently.
This image is one in a planned set of 99. Nine different views of Mercury were snapped in this set to create a mosaic pattern with images in 3 rows and 3 columns. The WAC is equipped with 11 narrow-band color filters, and each of the 9 different views was acquired through all 11 filters. This image was taken in filter 7, which is sensitive to light near the red end of the visible spectrum (750 nm), and shows features as small as about 6 kilometers (4 miles) in size. The MESSENGER team is studying this previously unseen side of Mercury in detail to map and identify new geologic features and to construct the planet���������s geological history. Mission Elapsed Time (MET) of image: 108827618
That was pretty neat, the network news is refering to this photo as the "spider".
Next...I have been following this Cassaini-Huygens Project since before the launch in 1997.
New Update
The Cassini spacecraft successfully flew by Titan on Jan. 5. Its visual and infrared mapping spectrometer mapped the Huygens probe's landing site, now in direct sunlight. The flyby featured two separate stellar occultations to study the structure of Titan's atmosphere. The spectrometer watched the star Alpha Bootes, and the ultraviolet imaging spectrograph pointed toward Alpha Lyra.
A rainbow in Saturns rings. Reflection of the Cassini Probe.
Next... New Horizons
NASA's Pluto Mission Launched Toward New Horizons
The first mission to distant planet Pluto is under way after the successful launch today of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
"Today, NASA began an unprecedented journey of exploration to the ninth planet in the solar system," says Dr. Colleen Hartman, Deputy Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. "Right now, what we know about Pluto could be written on the back of a postage stamp. After this mission, we'll be able to fill textbooks with new information."
The 1,054-pound, piano-sized spacecraft is the fastest ever launched, speeding away from Earth at approximately 36,000 miles per hour, on a trajectory that will take it more than 3 billion miles toward its primary science target. New Horizons will zip past Jupiter for a gravity assist and science studies in February 2007, and conduct the first close-up, in-depth study of Pluto and its moons in summer 2015. As part of a potential extended mission, the spacecraft would then examine one or more additional objects in the Kuiper Belt, the region of ancient, icy, rocky bodies (including Pluto) far beyond Neptune's orbit.
So far...
The voyage of NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft through the Jupiter system earlier this year provided a bird's-eye view of a dynamic planet that has changed since the last close-up looks by NASA spacecraft.
And finally... Man found on Mars (Not Really)
Hope you enjoyed this installment, please feel free to check out www.nasa.gov for more information reguarding your countries space travel agenda.
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